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Cole noted that Brewer’s approval rating was beginning to show signs of life prior to her signing of the immigration bill but said that after signing SB 1070, she “hit the afterburners.”

And suddenly her primary election opposition dissipated. In early July, state Treasurer Dean Martin — who led Brewer in one March poll — dropped his bid, pointing to the federal government’s lawsuit against the state’s immigration law.

“Gov. Brewer is going to need all our help to shoulder the burden of defending Arizona from the federal government,” Martin said in a statement announcing his departure from the race. “It is our duty to stand together as Arizona residents against an intrusive federal bureaucracy.”

Several days later, Buz Mills, a National Rifle Association board member, also suspended his campaign, leaving Brewer with just one little-known primary opponent.

“SB 1070 has regrettably taken the focus off of job creation and fixing the state budget,” he wrote on his campaign website. “So even though the chasm between Brewer’s policies and mine is dramatic, SB 1070 has politically mitigated those issues.”

Goddard has also made reference to the governor’s embrace of the immigration law and the politics surrounding it, dismissing Brewer as a “one-trick pony.”

Still, with the law attaining support of 55 percent of the country, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research poll, Brewer is so in demand at the moment that her aides are weighing how active she should be on the campaign trail this fall, helping Republicans in other states.

“She’s been getting dozens of endorsement requests from all over the country ... from state legislative races to Senate races,” said Cole. “She has not made any commitments right now, but we’re open to visiting some other parts of the country where she has been invited.”

In addition to Norton, Brewer has so far endorsed fellow GOP gubernatorial candidates Karen Handel in Georgia and Mary Fallin, who won the GOP nomination Tuesday in Oklahoma.

Back home, not everyone is thrilled by Brewer’s newfound celebrity. Even within her own party, some critics still point out that she was no champion of SB 1070 and that she rarely spoke publicly about immigration reform prior to signing the bill into law.

In a video provided to POLITICO by a campaign tracker, Arizona Republican state Sen. Steve Pierce is seen criticizing the governor’s attempt to take credit for the law.

“I helped pass Senate Bill 1070. By the way, the governor had nothing to do with that. That was the Legislature, and now it seems that she wants a piece of it,” Pierce said during an event recorded in June.

Jennifer Johnson, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said Democrats hope to use the governor’s rapid rise against her this fall.

“She’s not showing leadership; she’s showing opportunism,” said Johnson. “She’s been building herself into a single-issue celebrity.”

“It’s critical that we show the voters that that’s all she’s got,” she added. “We have multiple crises in our state, ... and our governor is bankrupt of serious ideas on any of these things. The only serious thought coming out of the governor’s office is about getting her reelected.”

Brewer should continue to move forward. She has the will and the support of the majority of American people behind her. This may go all the way to the Supreme Court on appeal where the Arizona law will finally be upheld.

Brewer will not go past being gov of AZ unless she can learn to speak. If you watch her on TV she has a hard time stringing thoughts together and would be killed in a debate. It's not that she's taken off but that the states atty has found himself tied to a party on the wrong side of public opinion. Brewer would be mistaken to think she has real star power.

Never thought I would see the day when the Federal government put the wishes and welfare of criminals ahead of law abiding American citizens. Time for that "hot" revolution our founder's forsaw. If the laws do not apply to the Feds, they certainly do not apply to anyone else. Let's roll!!

Pierce can gripe all he wants, a whole legislature can't be the national face of a bill. You need a single person to promote it well, and Brewer has done so with consistency, grace and ample competence.

Im sick of people comparing anything and everything to nazis. All that does is cheapens the evil of the Third Reich and it gets the debate nowhere. Is that all you can muster, or do you have something substantive to contribute?

This nation is being destroyed by a great orator because people placed that ability over patriotism, leadership, and experience. I understand Gov. Brewer very well thank you. If she falls short of your blue-nosed eliteism in her communication skills, then you are cordially invited to go somewhere your type is more appreciated.